Reviews for Plessy vs. Ferguson

The average rating for Plessy vs. Ferguson based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-23 00:00:00 Ian Causton Mummies And The Secrets Of Ancient Egypt by John Malam Published: 2001 Age range: 5 - 11 years Brief Synopsis: Written by John Malam and using researched information from Dr Joann Fletcher, this factual information book presents useful and interesting facts about Ancient Egypt. With thirteen chapters, the book explains how and why people became persevered in mummy form, enlightens the audience on the brief history of Ancient Egypt and explains the importance of the River Nile on keeping the population alive for more than three-thousand years during Ancient Egyptian rule. The book is filled with interesting pictures and photos, providing evidence to support the facts. My Opinion : The focus of this book is on Mummies; nevertheless it provides some very useful information about Ancient Egypt, mythology, the River Nile and hieroglyphics. I personally would not read the whole book to a class, but would choose some interesting chapters to read to occupancy topics. I think it would be more useful to read mythologies about Egypt and support it with some facts from the book. This is a very simple book in terms of information. It does not delve too deep into explaining the history of Ancient Egypt. However it does provide a starting point for young readers to interest and intrigue them into finding out more. The 'Reference Section' at the back of the book is the most appealing to me as there is a condensed timeline of the different Dynasties during Pharaoh rule. It also provides a list of Pharaohs and the Gods they believed in. Uses In The Classroom : The book is useful in sections, for classes in Key stage one, the chapters on Mummies could be used to accompany a creative project on making mummy like masks, as it provides a lot of visual support. Whereas the chapter on 'Images in Writing' could be used to explain what hieroglyphics are and as a class activity allow students to of decode sentences. This allows young children to develop and deepen their non-verbal reasoning skills, whilst teaching them how Ancient Egyptians used to communicate using different forms of writing to us today. For older primary students, aged eight and above the book can be used as an additional resource to encourage students to write their own facts about Ancient Egypt. As a class project, using some extracts from this book to explain the main points of information and allow students to present it creatively using Egyptian related materials and colours, such as written on stone plaques or scrolls. In addition to creative exercises informing students about Ancient Egypt, I think a good idea would be to explain the main Gods Egyptians believed in and as a creative writing exercise promote students into thinking and writing about their own Ancient Egyptian inspired Gods. Where students can think of the powers their Gods might have and incorporate them into their own stories. Overall this is a good starting point for independent readers aged eight to eleven to provide them with background knowledge on the topic of Ancient Egypt.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-24 00:00:00 James Mawson Though I have read about many of the cases and mummies in this book, I still managed to learn something.